Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children

Chapter 1. Marc Marschark, Brenda Schick, and Patricia Elizabeth Spencer Chapter 2. Issues of Linguistic Typology in the Study of Sign Language Development of Deaf Children, Dan I. Slobin Chapter 3. The Development of Gesture in Hearing and Deaf Children, V. Volterra, J.M. Iverson, and M. Castrataro Chapter 4. Patterns and Effects of Language Input to Deaf Infants and Toddlers from Deaf and Hearing Mothers, Patricia E. Spencer and Margaret Harris Chapter 5. Acquiring a Visually-Motivated Language: Evidence from Diverse Learners, Brenda Schick Chapter 6. Lexical Development of Deaf Children Acquiring Signed Languages, Diane Anderson Chapter 7. Deaf Children Are Verb Attenders: Early Sign Vocabulary Development in Dutch Toddlers, Nini Hoiting Chapter 8. Learning to Fingerspell Twice: Young Signing Children's Acquisition of Fingerspelling, Carol A. Padden Chapter 9. Richard P. Meier Chapter 10. Acquisition of Syntax in Signed Languages Diane Lillo-Martin and, Deborah Chen Pichler Chapter 11. How Faces Come To Serve Grammar: The Development of Non-Manual Morphology in ASL, Judy Reilly Chapter 12. Deaf Children's Acquisition of Modal Terms, Barbara Shaffer Chapter 13. The Development of Narrative Skills in British Sign Language, Gary Morgan Chapter 14. Natural Signed Language Acquisition within the Social Context of the Classroom, Jenny L. Singleton and Dianne D. Morgan